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Don't you hate it when that happens?

That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!

Up until maybe 10 years ago, the old sears building was still there. The green modern fixtures you mentioned were all in working order (except near the Garden center/bus loop). I tried to buy a few of the fixtures when the building went through an upgrade, but they weren't for sale. The parking lot you mentioned was paved eventually, and it was usually for staff parking and i want to say you entered off of West Blvd. The last business that i remember operating out of the old building was "Builders Discount" and that was around 2002.

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Ya'll probably get tired of me thanking everyone but I haved one more BIG THANK YOU to give.

And that THANKS goes to Flyingwedge for solving the Tudor house mystery!

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You da man....:worship:

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Here's another truly amazing cabinet card currently listed on eBay


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eBay

"B. Blake's Residence,...Cor. Pearl Ave. and Bellevue Place,...Los Angeles, Cal."

Now if I could only find the corner of Pearl Ave. and Bellevue Place. :shrug:

And who's this B. Blake?



P.S. If you look closely there are fourteen people in the photograph!
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A mystery bungalow.

Is anyone familiar with a Leoti Ave?


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eBay

"The West Bungalow...2002 Leoti Ave....Los Angeles..1907"


I wasn't able to find Leoti Avenue but I did find a wisp of street named West Leoti Terrace. (note the Storer House)

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Wouldn't it be something if the bungalow in the photo was torn down to make way for Frank Lloyd Wright's Storer House. (built 1923)

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Could they have meant Pearl Street? The photo below is circa 1905.

View of residences on Pearl Street and Bellevue Place. Pearl became Figueroa Street, and Bellevue was a short street from Pearl to Beaudry between 5th and 6th Streets.

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Truly amazing indeed!
 

Thanks for another great find, e_r . . . . I think the ebay photo is an early shot of the Bellevue Terrace Hotel at 6th and
Pearl/Figueroa, before the other two buildings were constructed. Compare the ebay photo to the building below on the left
(minus the hat, dormers, and long 1st floor porch); the buildings' shapes match, as do the number and position of second-
floor windows, the horizontal and vertical lines below those windows, the front porch, the chimney top, and the roof edge:

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Bellevue Terrace Hotel -- CHS-31129 @ USC Digital Library


The 1888 Sanborn Map shows 6th Street ended at Pearl (see lower right corner). After a slight jog across Pearl, Bellevue Place began:

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ProQuest via LA Public Library


The building in the ebay photo was apparently planned in 1882, completed in 1883, and turned into a boarding house by 1884:

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July 26, 1882, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com



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1883-84 Los Angeles City and County Directory @ fold3.com



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November 13, 1884, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LA Public Library


This article says that after Mr. Blake leased his home at 6th and Pearl (the home in the ebay photo and on the left in the
above USC photo) to Mrs. Whipple (see ad above), he built the second, or middle, of the three buildings that would
comprise the Bellevue Terrace Hotel:

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January 31, 1886, Los Angeles Herald @ Newspapers.com


And then Mr. Blake started the third and largest building (on the right in the above USC photo):

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March 23, 1886, Los Angeles Herald @ Newspapers.com


Unfortunately, Mr. Blake -- Barnum Blake -- met a sad end:

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December 1, 1889, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com



We've seen the Bellevue Terrace many times, including t2's post in 2015.

Hmm, Pearl Street... I just had to look it up.

The Pulchritude of Pearl Street: the Cesspool of the 1890s and the Clean-Up in the 1990s; or a Tale of Two Figueroa Streets

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e_r,

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1913 CD

Runs south from the middle of the south line of the Rosedale Cemetery acreage.

In its Leoti era, it had some interesting times--fires, violent footpads, etc. Two miscellaneous examples:

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LA Herald, 2/28/1802

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LA Times, 8/14/1911

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Aha! So Leoti Avenue did exist!!

Thanks, odinthor. :)

If the Tudor mansion was indeed at 249 S. Bristol (NW corner of Bristol and Hanover) it was owned by John Schumacher, the founder of Southwestern University (the law school that's now located inside of Bullocks Wilshire). He died in 1944 and the furnished home was on the market for at least 4 years and marked down before selling to a developer who built the current home there in 1957.
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Demolition permit 3/29/56

Here is Center Sinai Animal Hospital in WLA (Venice Blvd. at Selby) where my folks took the family dogs more than 40 years ago.
I looked at the building (while sitting at a red light this morning) and noticed the second floor appears to be an old Venice Bl front home that the first floor of the hospital was built around.

Does anyone have a photo of the home as it originally stood?

I call upon the super-sleuths of this thread to produce quick results!
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Thank you. :)

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Does anyone remember a Betsy Ross Bread brand?

Here's a snapshot currently on eBay of a delivery driver posing in front a small cash grocery.

"Hal Haskurs (?) L.A. Cal. '21."

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eBay


When I did a quick NLA search I happened upon - and was reminded of - the Betsy Ross (diner?) across from Grauman's Chinese Theater. Go here to see it.


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It was a nationwide brand. It appears to have been kind of a franchise arrangement, where local bakeries would use the recipe and get the national advertising. I remember it as a pretty good sandwich bread, sold at our local Safeway in the SF Bay Area.

Cheers,

Earl

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Hal Haskins is Harold O. Haskins:

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1921 CD

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Haskins, not Haskurs. :doh:

Thanks for the clarification, odinthor.

"21" is now 90021 which is the "Wholesale District"... :shrug:

I took '21 to mean 1921.

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"A boy stands on a lawn in front of Quayle properties on Griffin Avenue between Manitou and Baldwin streets, Los Angeles, 1930."

I haven't checked to see if the houses are still standing.


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I realize boys used to wear beanies back in the day (think Jughead) but this boy's hat is a bit different. I wonder if he was in some kind of neighborhood club. . .or just stylish. :)

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Really? The 'fascist' hat caught your attention? Not the petal sleeves or kimono leg overalls? :shrug: